(Oxbridge) An intercollegiate sporting competition, open to all colleges.
(in combination) Someone with a specific bra size.
(medicine, archaic) One who performs the operation of cupping.
(obsolete) A cupbearer.
(slang) A coffee aficionado.
Alternative spelling of cuppa
cupric
cupric
adj
(chemistry) Containing copper with an oxidation number of 2
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper.
cuprum
curpel
curpin
curple
curple
noun
(transferred) The buttocks, the posterior.
The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward
cypher
cypher
noun
Alternative spelling of cipher
cypres
cypres
noun
Obsolete form of cypress (“fabric”).
Obsolete form of cypress (“tree”).
cypria
cyprid
cyprid
noun
Any freshwater ostracod of the family Cyprididae.
cyprio
cypris
cypris
noun
cyprid
cyprus
cyprus
Proper noun
between Europe and the Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea. Member state of the European Union since 2004. Official name: Republic of Cyprus.
Island between Europe and the Middle East, in the
damper
damper
adj
comparative form of damp: more damp
noun
(chiefly New Zealand, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
(mechanical engineering) A shock absorber.
A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
Something that kills the mood.
dapper
dapper
adj
Neat, trim.
Quick; little and active.
Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
decerp
decerp
verb
(obsolete) To pluck off; to crop; to gather.
deeper
deeper
adj
comparative form of deep: more deep
depair
depark
depart
depart
noun
(obsolete) A going away; departure.
(obsolete) Division; separation, as of compound substances.
verb
(intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
(intransitive) To leave.
(intransitive) To set out on a journey.
(intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
(intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
(obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.
(obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
(transitive) To go away from; to leave.
depere
deperm
deperm
noun
(chiefly nautical) The act or process of deperming.
verb
(transitive, chiefly nautical) To degauss or demagnetize; especially, to degauss a ship by dragging a large powered electrical cable along its side.
deport
deport
verb
(reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
(transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
depree
deprez
depure
depure
verb
(obsolete) to depurate; to purify
diaper
diaper
noun
(Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
verb
Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
To put diapers on someone.
diapir
diapir
noun
(geology) An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden.
dipper
dipper
noun
(UK, India) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
(historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
(historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
(historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.
(slang) A pickpocket.
A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
dipter
dipyre
dipyre
noun
A scapolite mineral.
dispar
dopers
dopers
noun
plural of doper
dopier
dopier
adj
comparative form of dopy: more dopy
dopper
dopper
Noun
An Anabaptist or Baptist.
dorpat
dorper
douper
draped
draped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of drape
draper
draper
noun
One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
drapes
drapes
noun
Heavy cloth hung over a window.
plural of drape
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drape
drapet
drapey
drapey
adj
Tending to form drape-like folds.
dreepy
dripps
drippy
drippy
adj
(informal) Maudlin; sentimental.
(informal) Rainy.
(informal) Tiresome; annoying.
(slang) Extravagant, luxurious.
Dripping or tending to drip.
drokpa
droops
droops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of droop
droopt
droopy
droopy
adj
Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.
dropax
droppy
dropsy
dropsy
noun
(archaic) Edema, swelling.
drukpa
drukpa
Noun
The Drukpa Kagyu (also Drukpa Kargyu) school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Adjective
Of, from, or pertaining to Bhutan or the Bhutanese people.
Sometimes (more narrowly) pertaining to the main ethnic group within Bhutan.
Pertaining to the Drukpa Kagyu (Drukpa Kargyu) or Drukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
drupal
drupal
adj
(botany) drupaceous
drupel
drupel
noun
Synonym of drupelet
drupes
drupes
noun
plural of drupe
dryope
dryops
dumper
dumper
noun
(computing) A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.
(surfing) A wave that knocks a surfer into the water.
A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites.
A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites.
One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship.
duparc
dupers
dupers
noun
plural of duper
dupery
dupery
noun
The act or practice of duping; the condition of being deceived.
dupper
dupper
noun
Alternative form of dubber (a kind of bottle)
dupree
earcap
earcap
noun
A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.
earlap
earlap
noun
(archaic) The ear lobe.
A flap connected to headgear to protect the ear (against the cold, or physical harm); an earflap.
(obsolete) An empire; the status or dominion of an emperor.
empire
empire
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Empire.
noun
(Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
empiry
empory
emptor
emptor
noun
(law) Buyer.
enrapt
enrapt
adj
(poetic or archaic) fascinated, enraptured
entrap
entrap
verb
(transitive) To catch in a trap or snare.
(transitive) To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
entrep
enwrap
enwrap
verb
To absorb completely or engross
To wrap around, surround; to envelop
eparch
eparch
noun
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy.
(historical, Ancient Greece) The governor or prefect of a province.
The ruler of an eparchy.
epeira
eperua
eperva
ephori
ephori
noun
plural of ephorus
ephors
ephors
noun
plural of ephor
ephram
ephrem
ephyra
ephyra
noun
(zoology) An immature medusoid stage of a scyphozoan jellyfish once it breaks off from its segmenting polyp.
epimer
epimer
noun
(chemistry) Any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres.
epirot
epirot
Noun
An inhabitant or a resident of ancient or modern Epirus, in northwest Greece and southern Albania.
epirus
epirus
Proper noun
A traditional geographic region lying partly in northwestern Greece (where it includes Arta, Ioannina, Preveza and Thesprotia) and partly in southern Albania (an area known as Northern Epirus).
A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.
One of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.
epitra
eprise
eprosy
epural
epural
adj
On the dorsal side of the tail.
noun
A boney or cartilaginous neural spine on the epural side of a fish's axial column, sometimes supporting fin-rays.
erupts
erupts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of erupt
eryops
escarp
escarp
noun
The side of the ditch next to the parapet in a fortification; the scarp.
verb
(transitive) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scarp.
espier
espier
noun
One who espies.
esprit
esprit
noun
A wit.
Liveliness, or active mind and spirit.
Spirit, enthusiasm.
eupora
euripi
euripi
noun
plural of euripus
europa
europe
excerp
excerp
verb
(obsolete) To pick out.
expert
expert
adj
(obsolete) Proven, experienced, veteran.
Characteristic of an expert.
Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.
noun
(chess) A player ranking just below master.
A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.
expire
expire
verb
(intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
(transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
(transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
(transitive, intransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
expiry
expiry
noun
(Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada) Death.
(Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada) End; termination; expiration.
(New Zealand, Australia) Synonym of expiration date
export
export
adj
Of or relating to exportation or exports.
noun
(countable) Something that is exported.
(uncountable) The act of exporting.
verb
(transitive) To carry away.
(transitive) To cause to spread in another part of the world.
(transitive) To put up (a child) for international adoption.
(transitive) To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
(transitive, computing) To send (data) from one program to another.
extirp
extirp
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To extirpate (something).
forpet
forpet
noun
(dated, Scotland) A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
forpit
forpit
noun
Alternative form of forpet
fraple
frappe
frappe
noun
(New England) A thick milkshake containing ice cream.
A liqueur or cocktail served on shaved ice.
An iced, sweetened, beaten coffee drink, associated with Greek cuisine.
freesp
frumps
frumps
noun
plural of frump
frumpy
frumpy
adj
(dated) Bad-tempered.
Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
frypan
frypan
noun
(US, Australia, New Zealand) A frying pan.
furphy
furphy
noun
(Australia, slang) A rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story.
gapers
gapers
noun
plural of gaper
gapper
gapper
noun
(baseball) A ball hit through the regions between the outfielders.
Someone who is on or has done a gap year, or a break from study.
gaspar
gasper
gasper
noun
(BDSM, slang) One who is aroused by autoasphyxiation.
(Britain, slang) A cigarette.
(slang, aviation) An adjustable air outlet over a passenger seat in aircraft.
Agent noun of gasp; a person or animal that gasps.
Something that causes one to gasp in shock, suspense, or awe.
gimper
gipper
gipper
noun
(obsolete except dialectal) One who gips (i.e., cleans fish in preparation for curing).
gipser
gipser
noun
(historical) A kind of pouch worn at the girdle.
gopher
gopher
noun
A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (true gophers).
Alternative spelling of gofer
The gopher rockfish.
The gopher tortoise.
The ground squirrel.
gopura
gopura
noun
Alternative form of gopuram
grampa
grampa
Noun
grandfather
gramps
gramps
noun
(by extension, derogatory) Old man.
(colloquial, humorous) Grandpa, grandfather.
plural of gramp
graped
graped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grape
grapes
grapes
noun
plural of grape
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grape
grapey
grapey
adj
Of, or pertaining to, grapes.
Resembling grapes, grape-like.
graphs
graphs
noun
plural of graph
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of graph
graphy
graphy
noun
A particular spelling or written form, in the context of the French language.
grappa
grappa
noun
(countable) A variety or serving of grappa.
(uncountable) An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace.
grapta
grasps
grasps
noun
plural of grasp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grasp
griped
griped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gripe
griper
griper
noun
(archaic) An oppressor or extortioner.
One who gripes.
gripes
gripes
noun
plural of gripe
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gripe
gripey
gripey
adj
Tending to gripe.
griphe
grippe
grippe
noun
(pathology, dated) Influenza, the flu.
grippy
grippy
adj
(Scotland) Tight-fisted, greedy, stingy.
Afflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza.
Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.
groped
groped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of grope
groper
groper
noun
(Australia) Any of several marine fish, especially the Queensland groper or giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus, of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
(New Zealand) hapuku wreckfish (Polyprion oxygeneios)
Agent noun of grope; one who gropes.
An employee of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), especially those who perform inspections on passengers.
gropes
gropes
noun
plural of grope
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grope
groups
groups
noun
plural of group
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of group
grpmod
grumph
grumph
noun
(Scotland) A grunting sound.
verb
(Scotland, intransitive) To make a grunting sound.
grumps
grumps
noun
A fit of bad temper.
plural of grump
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grump